Can I get pregnant if I have cervicitis?

The female vagina is an extroverted organ and is very susceptible to bacterial invasion, which can lead to gynecological diseases. Therefore, women should always pay attention to the cleanliness and hygiene of their private parts to avoid related diseases. When women suffer from gynecological diseases, if they are not treated in time, they often face private itching and vaginal pain, which may even affect pregnancy in severe cases. So for patients with cervicitis, is there still a possibility of pregnancy?

Will cervicitis affect pregnancy?

It will affect pregnancy. When the cervix is ​​inflamed, a large number of pus cells can swallow sperm, reduce sperm motility, and shorten sperm life. Even if the mirror survives by chance, it will not be easy to pass through the cervix and enter the uterine cavity, thus reducing the pregnancy rate. Patients should pay special attention to cleanliness in their daily lives. Unclean sexual life can easily bring in various pathogens, which in turn cause the occurrence of diseases. In severe cases, it may even lead to cervical cancer. If it is mild cervicitis, there is no need to treat it temporarily and you can get pregnant; if it is severe cervicitis, it is not recommended to get pregnant immediately, because severe cervicitis not only has a relatively low pregnancy rate, but may also cause certain harm to the fetus and pregnant women, such as: prenatal bleeding, so it is recommended to treat cervicitis before getting pregnant. Suffering from cervicitis affects women's pregnancy. When cervicitis occurs, it must be treated in time; regular gynecological examinations (once a year) should be conducted; avoid childbirth or damage to the cervix with instruments; postpartum cervical lacerations should be sutured in time. During sexual intercourse, couples should take good contraceptive measures to avoid premature, excessive, and frequent pregnancy and childbirth, which will cause damage to the cervix and provide opportunities for bacterial invasion. Cervicitis is a common disease among women of childbearing age. It can be divided into acute and chronic types, with chronic types being more common. Cervicitis is often transformed from acute cervicitis. Cervical lacerations or eversions caused by childbirth, miscarriage, or surgery make women more susceptible to infection due to weak resistance. Patients with cervicitis should still use some clinical professional drug treatments. Among the current drugs in this area, the combination of Chinese and Western medicine will not form drug resistance, has better treatment effects, and is significantly effective in treating the symptoms of pelvic inflammatory disease.

Will cervical erosion affect pregnancy?

"Cervical erosion" is a manifestation of both cervical pathology and physiology. Pathological "erosion" includes cervical cancer, cervical cancer, precursor lesions (CIN2, CIN3 often seen in pathology diagnosis books), acute/chronic cervicitis; physiological "erosion" includes increased hormone levels (postmenopausal women will never experience "cervical erosion") and outward migration of columnar epithelial cells when the acidity and alkalinity of the vagina changes. The above two situations will manifest as "cervical erosion" on the surface of the cervix. The concept of "cervical erosion" is abolished. We must clearly know whether there is any real cervical lesion, and we must not treat normal physiological changes as diseases that affect our physical and mental health. If we want to have a healthy baby, as a mother, the question we should ask is not "Will cervical erosion affect pregnancy?" but "Does my cervix have precancerous lesions?" If there are no lesions, we can enter the pre-pregnancy preparation state. The diagnosis of cervical disease has a very standardized diagnostic process, namely the three-stage diagnostic process for cervical disease: the first step: cervical cytology and cervical high-risk HPV examination; the second step: colposcopy; the third step: histopathological diagnosis. Before pregnancy, a routine first-step cervical examination (cervical cells and cervical high-risk HPV) should be performed. If both results are normal, there is no need to proceed to the second or third-step examinations. In other words, as long as cervical cancer and cervical precancerous lesions are ruled out, whether or not there is so-called "cervical erosion" will not affect pregnancy. If there is a problem with the results of the first step (cervical cytology and cervical high-risk HPV testing), we need to go through the second step (colposcopy) and, if necessary, the third step (taking cervical tissue for pathological diagnosis) to make a final diagnosis. If the final diagnosis is chronic cervicitis (manifested as the so-called "cervical erosion"), it will not affect pregnancy and does not require treatment. When the final diagnosis is cervical cancer or cervical precancerous lesions, regardless of whether the surface of the cervix is ​​smooth or the so-called "cervical erosion", pregnancy should be considered after treatment. Most treatment options for cervical cancer include hysterectomy, which means there will be no chance of getting pregnant again; however, treatment of precancerous lesions will not affect pregnancy and the choice of delivery method (vaginal delivery, cesarean section), so we must actively cooperate with doctors to treat precancerous lesions as soon as possible and happily start preparing for pregnancy again.

Finally, we hope that every female friend, whether before or after becoming a mother, will insist on having a cervical examination once a year to keep cervical cancer and precancerous lesions away from us at all times.